It should have marketed as a remake of "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" and I would have been ok. I grew up a diehard Godzilla fan (I still am) and at the age of 11 when Godzilla 98 came out I was destroyed. I was sooooo pissed.

Just snagged these

With these I've now completed my Godzilla dvd collection. Just a few away from having the classic Toho science fiction classics (Mysterians, Varan, Matango, Atragon, and Gorath)

With these I've now completed my Godzilla dvd collection. Just a few away from having the classic Toho science fiction classics (Mysterians, Varan, Matango, Atragon, and Gorath)

Yeah...I'm hooked on Asian monster/sci-fi movies. Last purchase (not counting re-buying Godzilla vs. Biolante on Blu-Ray) was Latitude Zero. I'd seen it advertised for $75.00 to over $100.00 for a used copy, then found it listed on Cinepix for $15.98 new. Ordered it, and it was immediately backordered. It took about a year, but they finally sent me a copy!My next "backorder" I'm waiting on is War In Space...ordered with Message From Space. Love those spaceships that look like high-seas gallions!

an edit...Since this was now on my mind, I checked on Amazon.ca, and saw...."The Last Dinosaur" (a Japanese/American co-production). I saw this once on tv a couple of decades ago, and never came across it again...until just now. It's available on Warners "burn to order" archive series, and Amazon had 1 copy. So I left the backordered "War In Space" on it's own, and moved "Message From Space" onto the same order as "The Last Dinosaur" to get free shipping.Finding and ordering these things is at least as much fun as watching them!

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With these I've now completed my Godzilla dvd collection. Just a few away from having the classic Toho science fiction classics (Mysterians, Varan, Matango, Atragon, and Gorath)

Yeah...I'm hooked on Asian monster/sci-fi movies. Last purchase (not counting re-buying Godzilla vs. Biolante on Blu-Ray) was Latitude Zero. I'd seen it advertised for $75.00 to over $100.00 for a used copy, then found it listed on Cinepix for $15.98 new. Ordered it, and it was immediately backordered. It took about a year, but they finally sent me a copy!My next "backorder" I'm waiting on is War In Space...ordered with Message From Space. Love those spaceships that look like high-seas gallions!

an edit...Since this was now on my mind, I checked on Amazon.ca, and saw...."The Last Dinosaur" (a Japanese/American co-production). I saw this once on tv a couple of decades ago, and never came across it again...until just now. It's available on Warners "burn to order" archive series, and Amazon had 1 copy. So I left the backordered "War In Space" on it's own, and moved "Message From Space" onto the same order as "The Last Dinosaur" to get free shipping.Finding and ordering these things is at least as much fun as watching them!

They have a shit ton of Toho sci-fi dvds for sale, many official American releases that are out of print for $25 (as opposed to $50+ on Amazon/Ebay) and many bootlegs. Before you order, they even list how many copies they have, so you know if they are on back order or not. As of now they only Godzilla bootleg I have is Godzilla Returns aka Godzilla 1985, but hell, it has a making of feature after the credits, so that's pretty snazzy. That reminds me though, I need Latitude Zero....

There is the giant Gorath (i.e. monster walrus) at the end of the film. Granted he gets barely 7 min. of screen time, if that.

Have you snagged the "Icons of Sci-Fi" Toho collection?

2 of the 3 movies don't have giant monsters but it is the only official release of the Japanese cut of "Mothra." Plus it has a pretty nifty commentary track on it. "Battle in Outer Space" is also a loose sequel to "The Mysterians."

"Pulgasari is a 1985 North Korean fantasy action film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo. The film, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series, was produced by the South Korean Shin, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung.

Kim was a lifelong admirer of the director and Kaiju-like films, and kidnapped the latter and his wife, famous actress Choi Eun-hee, with the specific purpose of making fantasy/propaganda films for the North Korean government. Kim Jong-il also produced Pulgasari and all the films that Sang-ok made before he and Choi fled the country.

Teruyoshi Nakano and the staff from Japan's Toho studios, the creators of Godzilla, participated in creating the film's special effects. Kenpachiro Satsuma – the stunt performer who played Godzilla from 1984 to 1995 – portrayed Pulgasari, and when the Godzilla remake was released in Japan in 1998, he was quoted as saying he preferred Pulgasari to the American Godzilla.

Jonathan Ross stated that the film is intended to be a propaganda metaphor for the effects of unchecked capitalism and the power of the collective."

---Just before “Pulgasari” was completed, Ok took his wife, proclaimed juche from North Korea, and took the midnight train out of the country for good. Pissed off with Ok and his freedom loving ways, Jong bans the film for almost ten years.

(Oh! Did you think it was banned in the States?? )

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"Pulgasari is a 1985 North Korean fantasy action film directed by Shin Sang-ok and Chong Gon Jo. The film, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series, was produced by the South Korean Shin, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung.

Kim was a lifelong admirer of the director and Kaiju-like films, and kidnapped the latter and his wife, famous actress Choi Eun-hee, with the specific purpose of making fantasy/propaganda films for the North Korean government. Kim Jong-il also produced Pulgasari and all the films that Sang-ok made before he and Choi fled the country.

Teruyoshi Nakano and the staff from Japan's Toho studios, the creators of Godzilla, participated in creating the film's special effects. Kenpachiro Satsuma – the stunt performer who played Godzilla from 1984 to 1995 – portrayed Pulgasari, and when the Godzilla remake was released in Japan in 1998, he was quoted as saying he preferred Pulgasari to the American Godzilla.

Jonathan Ross stated that the film is intended to be a propaganda metaphor for the effects of unchecked capitalism and the power of the collective."

---Just before “Pulgasari” was completed, Ok took his wife, proclaimed juche from North Korea, and took the midnight train out of the country for good. Pissed off with Ok and his freedom loving ways, Jong bans the film for almost ten years.

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